Sekirov Dictionary

leash

/liːʃ/

noun 7
verb 2
forms 3
phrases 2

noun7

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A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
- A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash — 1922
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A leg rope.
- Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year — 1980
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
(no longer used) A brace and a half; a tierce.
(no longer used) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares).
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(no longer used) A group of three.
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis. — 1597

verb2

To fasten or secure with a leash.
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(figurative) to curb, restrain
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state. — 1919

forms

leashed · leashing · leashes

Phrases with leash

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